GiveLocal

By supporting Chime In! during the GiveLocalcampaign, your contribution will be partially matched.

Last year, a gift of $50 became $56 after the match.

What does it cost?

Donations made through the GiveLocal website are charged 3% for credit card processing and 2% for site management. But, we anticipate matching funds will add significantly more than the costs.

Here
is how bonus funds work:

Every dollar donated to participating
nonprofits will be enhanced with a portion of over $100,000 in bonus
funds provided by Connecticut Community Foundation and Give Local
sponsors - making donor dollars stretch farther. Each nonprofit's
share of the bonus fund pool will be proportional to the organization's
percentage of the total funds raised during Give Local.

Arising from our
origins as a family of handbell choirs, our mission is to engage people in the
joy and sense of community that music fosters through participation and
performance.

So our handbell concerts are interactive and include a time for
our audience and supporters to chime in through interactive Q&A sessions,
audience participation with voices and instruments, and the after-concert
petting zoo to sample all the instruments.

Our home base is Bethlehem, CT, but we
share our handbell music at a diversity of settings and venues, near and far,
throughout the year. From Main Stage at the Bethlehem Fair to the New Haven
International Festival of Arts & Ideas to Carnegie Hall to local nursing
homes, from collaborative concerts with choral and orchestral groups to hosting
local choirs and community musicians for an annual Ring & Sing Community
Music Day, we are passionate about making and sharing our music to build
community.